Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.
Samuel Butler
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
Farmer
Novelist
Painter
Photographer
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Translator
Writer
Notts
Cellarius
Fear
Comes
Death
Men
Rage
Generally
Atheism
Afraid
More quotes by Samuel Butler
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
Samuel Butler
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Butler
Let man be true and every god a liar.
Samuel Butler
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Samuel Butler
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
Samuel Butler
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Samuel Butler
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Samuel Butler
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
Samuel Butler
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Samuel Butler
Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Samuel Butler
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
Samuel Butler
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Samuel Butler
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Samuel Butler
Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
Samuel Butler
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Samuel Butler
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
Samuel Butler
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Samuel Butler